This seems like a strange decision that I can only forsee spamming up Facebook walls in the future, the same as any other Facebook app that spams things to your wall.

So there’s a bit of a difference between Timeline posts and Stream posts. Timeline is what Spotify uses, whereas most Facebook games use Stream posts. Timeline posts are smarter about getting combined if there are a bunch of similar ones. We’re hoping people will like it and not find it too annoying, we will see. We’re trying to strike the right balance and we hope you’ll give it a try before you decide.

As you’re aware, this is completely optional and only unlocks more choices for people to tell about their actions.
It’s not like selling out

Ironically, while defending this feature, I wouldn’t find any use for it as I rarely use facebook and secondly, I avoid everything that posts my actions in my facebook wall. But it’s still optional so it doesn’t change my view towards kongregate in any way

Publish to my Facebook feed when I earn an achievement? Can I choose which badge I am gonna publish / which badge I don’t want to publish, or I am forced to publish every achievement if I checked “Earn an achievement” ?

This is just a bad idea.
A very bad Idea.
You had so many ways to actually improve this website.
Instead you decided to go “sheep” mode and follow the Facebook hysteria.
Nobody wants this. If we’re on Kong chats and Forums, it’s to meet new people. But you don’t want them to know everything about you. And your IRL friends don’t give a crap if you’re level 40 on Kongregate.

This is nothing but a huge waste of time and energy on your part.
If you want more community, you should improve community IN Kongregate. Not exporting it OUTSIDE.

It’s okay, you made a mistake but I still love you ( less, but I still love you ).
You can do better. Looking forward to it.

If you want more community, you should improve community IN Kongregate. Not exporting it OUTSIDE.

I absolutely understand what you’re getting at, and I love that you’re thinking about how to build community within Kongregate.

I don’t actually see this as a way to export the community aspects of Kongregate, but as a way to draw more awesome people to the site. I have some friends who are really fun who don’t have accounts here, and I wish they’d join so I can taunt them with my TWO impossible badges—because heaven knows only a noob would be impressed by my achievements as a gamer, but that’s a conversation for a different day. The point is that fun people are likely to know other fun people, and those other fun people should c’mon over here.

The other thing to note is that when I actually went ahead and tried this out during testing yesterday morning, I discovered that two of my real-life friends— who totally know I work here!— made accounts without telling me. (wtf???) So now I get to follow them, and leave shouts on their profiles, and pester them to play games with me, and generally make them interact with me more.

I’m hoping that that sort of thing, multiplied by a couple hundred thousand people, will make for lots of good times and shenanigans.

PS. Very soon, you’ll start seeing some other new features that we hope will improve the community aspects inside of Kongregate as well. So we’re not neglecting that part! Actually trying to do both at once.

DIE already, the facebook-virus is spreading to my favourite things.
First my girl asked me to start up a facebook account, I said NO.
Then my mom (are you f-ing kidding me) I said NOOO.
Then every new person I met had at some point asked me…are you on facebook, and I
replied firmly with NO.

But not you KONG, I would have never thought that you would integrate that superficial, lifesucking, repugnant and vile facebook into my favourite past-time for over four years, nothing is certain anymore. Nothing is free anymore.
No hope, I’m going to kill myself, right after I update my status.

Yaysageit, you understand this is completely optional and only exists for the people who have Facebook account and want to link it to their Kong account, right? You understand this isn’t going to change your Kong experience?

Yeah it will, it’s just another step closer to turning KONG into Zinga, hey farmville makes millions, lets charge people for a subscription or get more information from our users so we can generate larger revenue when we sell out our players to Mark. I don’t have to make sense it stinks donkey-balls

This seems like a strange decision that I can only forsee spamming up Facebook walls in the future, the same as any other Facebook app that spams things to your wall.

So there’s a bit of a difference between Timeline posts and Stream posts. Timeline is what Spotify uses, whereas most Facebook games use Stream posts. Timeline posts are smarter about getting combined if there are a bunch of similar ones. We’re hoping people will like it and not find it too annoying, we will see. We’re trying to strike the right balance and we hope you’ll give it a try before you decide.

And for those of us who don’t use the timeline thing, does it post in our regular stream or does it post nothing at all?

This seems like a strange decision that I can only forsee spamming up Facebook walls in the future, the same as any other Facebook app that spams things to your wall.

So there’s a bit of a difference between Timeline posts and Stream posts. Timeline is what Spotify uses, whereas most Facebook games use Stream posts. Timeline posts are smarter about getting combined if there are a bunch of similar ones. We’re hoping people will like it and not find it too annoying, we will see. We’re trying to strike the right balance and we hope you’ll give it a try before you decide.

And for those of us who don’t use the timeline thing, does it post in our regular stream or does it post nothing at all?

I believe it just won’t show up if you’re not using fb timeline.

In other news, this feature is now live :) As someone that hates spammy facebookness, I really really recommend trying it out for yourself before saying “NOPE!” It isn’t spammy at all, and is a really nice way to share some games with your friends.

In other news, this feature is now live :) As someone that hates spammy facebookness, I really really recommend trying it out for yourself before saying “NOPE!” It isn’t spammy at all, and is a really nice way to share some games with your friends.

Call Greg and Raw in to add a bunch of new badges tonight and I’ll try it out. i’m gonna pass on posting to my Facebook every time I 5/5 a game, but posting achievements sounds neat :P

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